The next-gen consoles’ sales are getting furious and more furious as the holiday season nears. The sales figures for the Wii consoles in juts 12 hours was reported more than 50,000 as it went on sale in UK on Friday. Nintendo also has made some bold statements regarding the shipment of the consoles by the end of his calendar year that confirms somewhat 4 million units till 31st Dec, 2006.
Simultaneously NDP Group presented its result cards for the various gaming consoles and software developers few days back. The report says that the whole gaming industry is showing an aggregate growth of 34% for Nov. month. The report presented by the group has encouraged all the software as well as hardware developers. Sony appreciating the last month sales figures says that they have achieved pretty satisfactory sales figures 197,000 units after its premier in Japan and US on 11th and 17th Nov. respectively. However Sony lagged behind on the shipment target of PS3 consoles in US with 2 million units instead of 4 million promised. But recuperating after the set back Sony has announced to ship 4 million hardware units till 31st Dec, 2006.
NDP has brought the ray of hope not only to Sony but Nintendo and Microsoft too, since Nintendo is the greatest margin holder amongst all the hardware developers with selling off somewhat 918,000 DS units in Nov. month and procured the first place while Sony’s PS2 stands second with 664,000 units sales. However in the next-gen war Microsoft grabs the first place with selling more than 511,000 units with creating total revenue of 3.8 million in one month while Nintendo’s Wii secured second place with selling 476,000 units for the month and of course PS3 at the third place with 197,000 units transaction.
Software sales figures are also praiseworthy that generated a total revenue of 804 million against last year’s $702 million in which gears of War was the major contributor who sold more than 1 million units with creating $61.5 million business for the developer.
In wooing escalation, hardware sale was the major booster to take the whole growth figures to 34% while software contributed 15% to the whole growth.
The study clearly sows that the people are getting more and more involved in the video games and taking it as the best way of entertainment and also the data finds a quite large space for the dispersion of the video game sin the infinitely large gaming world but the thing is that in which way the game developers present their gaming gadgets and what content they are truly serving to the gamers.
Via: xboxic
